great books

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INNER LIFE/CREATIVITY/SELF-HELP/EXPLORATION
see SARK, Robert Fulghum
Ben Zander – The Art of Possibility
Austin Kleon – Steal Like An Artist
Carol Lloyd – Creating a Life Worth Living
Joanna Field – A Life of One’s Own
– An Experiment in Leisure
Laurence Boldt – Zen and the Art of Making a Living

ETHICS/RELIGION
William James – The Varieties of Religious Experience
Sam Harris – The Moral Landscape
– The End of Faith
Jonathan Glover – Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
Ram Dass – Be Here Now
Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
The Gospel of Ramana Maharshi

ART
Robert McKee – Story

PHILOSOPHY & PSYCHOLOGY OF ART/CRITICISMJohn Dewey – Art as ExperienceOscar Wilde – IntentionsR.G. Collingwood – Speculum Mentis
David Best – Feeling and Reason in the Arts
Theophile Gautier – preface to Mademoiselle de Maupin – read online
Jean Gimpel – The Cult of Art: Against Art and Artists (1968)
John Carey – What Good Are The Arts?
Tolstoy – What is Art?

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY
Plutarch – Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans – read online
Gandhi – The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Boswell – Life of Samuel Johnson